Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-12-10
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

The business failures throughout the
country during Inc last seven days number
ed 226.
The stakes In the Carney. McAulif match
were drawn yesterday and the fights now
entirely of.
The census of the city tf Charleston. S.
G. shows total population of 81 .357-white
81 ,543, colorsd 38,414
The final interment Of the executed an
archsts will take place at Waldheim, near
Chicago, Christmas day.
The Rev. Wm. II. Woods, of Virginia,
has accepted call 10 franklin Squere Pres.
byte,ian Church, Baltimore.
Ba'tey Campbell, The de,nenled play
wright, is improving in metal condition at
the insane asylum 10 Middetown, New
York.
Rev. E. P. Humphrey, one OF the oldest
and most distinguished ministers in the
South, died suddenly in l. luisvil'e, KY, yes
telday.
TIE centennial anniversary of The birth
of Ga laudet, the founder of the American
Asylum for Deaf Mutes, was celebrated to.
day in Boston,
Reoam'n Rush P .umley, an associate of
William Lloyd Garrison in the earliest agi-
tatitn against slavery, died ia Galveston
yesterday, aged n years.
Jake Sharp's condition is said 10 be very
precarious. HIS attending physician stated
Yesterday that he would no. be surprised to
hear OF his death at any moment.
While Augustus P. Chamberlain and his
wife. of Concord, Mass, were ct ending
fair his residence was visited by burglars,
and SIS 900 worth of silverware stolen.
The military authorities at Halifax say
that lha story circulated there Thursday
night of the attempt to explode the gun cot
ton tank at Georges Island was a hoax.
Secretary and Mrs. Whitney entertained
q company of twenty persons at dinner in
Washington last evening to meet Hon. Jos.
Chamberlain and Sir Charles Upper.
Rev. Mr.. Burchard of Rum ,Romanism and
Rebellion" fame, called ut the White House
yesterday and was most cordially wei
coined by the President and Miss Cleveland.
Thomas White, who killed Harry Wood
son, alias "Black Diamond" q colored
pugilst, was found guilty of manslaugbter
10 Chicago yesterday and sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary.
TIE Rev. Daniel Pike, who died recently
a N.wburyport, had preached five thous'
and sermons, OBLIGATED at two thousand
weddings and an equal number of funerals.
He also baptized by immersion eleven hun
drad converts.
Miss Alice Wrightson, of Os@ego county,
n. Y, who inherits $50, 600 from the estate
of her dead fatber, has eloped with Henry
McAu!ay, railrca1 brakeman. McAulsy
is n, progressing, and can scarcely read,
v lille che Is highly educated and fascinating
in appearance.
General Zsnas G.. Priest, the veteran diV-
sion superintendent of the New York Cen
trial Railway, who died day or two ago,
upwards eighty years of age, declined to
be put on the retired list atfull pay couple
of years ago, on the ground that If he quit
work he would not live four weeks.
TIE schooner nellie s. Terrell, Of Bridge
ton, II. j., bound from Baltimore to Ware
ham, Mass, while off Barnegat light, last
Thursday was run into by the steamer Al.
giers, and sunk Immediately. The steward
and two on were lost. The captain and
others were taken up by the AlgioIs and
landed at LeWes, Del.
The railroad and warehouse commissions
report on The Chatsworth disaster was SUBJ
uittCO IColoiOoJ ~ ~ ioBhOiO, III. ~ WAC
the opinion of the commission that the train
would not have been wrecked if the bridge
had not been burned before the train reached
it. They found no evidence ofincendiarism,
but censure the railroad for neglect.
The annual meeting of the stockholders OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal will be held in
Annapolis, January2 Col. Baughman will
retire from the presidency of the canal when
be enters upon his duties as State comptrol-
Ter of Maryland and Stephen Gsmbrill is
mentioned as The next president. Presi
dent Baughman says the State of Mary
land can pay interest on the canal repair
bonds.
James V. D. Kelley, who was arrested on
Thursday in New Haven, Conn, for the alb
duction Of Rachael II. Stone, age1 16 years,
Ct Philadelphia. was given a hearing yester
day and committed In default OF SIS 900 bail
for trial. Miss Stcua testified that she be.
came infatuated with Kelly and when he
proposed elopement aud marriage she con.
seuted and left Philadelphia with him on
Nov 5. but were not married .K.l'y's wife
lives in Washington, where she is employed
as clerk in the pal ent Office.